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Zebra Mussels
You forgot about the zebra mussels in Lake Ontario that will just feed off the algae.
Here's a source:
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Re:Don't the laws of computing make it...
You can't find out anything from the nothing that I know.
But there is something that you do know - who or where you got the message from. So when they've got that out of you, they can go after that person, or investigate the dead letter box you used, or whatever. -
Actually
Actually, I will lay claim to having predicted this, right here.
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Re:Consequences?
I looked up hash collision (e2) and hash function (e2) at Wikipedia and Everything2, which clarified the summary quite a bit.
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Re:Consequences?
I looked up hash collision (e2) and hash function (e2) at Wikipedia and Everything2, which clarified the summary quite a bit.
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Re:MBA
Yes; also see:
Linux Torvlads (beware: ugly as hell)
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Re:Where can I download it then?
When Greg Stafford formed Issaries Inc. to publish a new Gloranthan RPG, he didn't have any cash to do it with. So, he asked the fans to join the GTA, the Glorantha Trading Association, at varying levels of contribution starting at a hundred bucks. For that, you get a T-Shirt, access to a few online tidbits, one free book when it's published, and a free drink at any GTA party you can make it to (I've been to four so far at RPG conventions). No way is this monetarily worth it, but without our contributions, the game would never have been published.
In short: I want to see glossy supplements on the shelves of my FLGS. So do the contributors to Paranoia XP. -
Re:Where can I download it then?
When Greg Stafford formed Issaries Inc. to publish a new Gloranthan RPG, he didn't have any cash to do it with. So, he asked the fans to join the GTA, the Glorantha Trading Association, at varying levels of contribution starting at a hundred bucks. For that, you get a T-Shirt, access to a few online tidbits, one free book when it's published, and a free drink at any GTA party you can make it to (I've been to four so far at RPG conventions). No way is this monetarily worth it, but without our contributions, the game would never have been published.
In short: I want to see glossy supplements on the shelves of my FLGS. So do the contributors to Paranoia XP. -
Re:Where can I download it then?
When Greg Stafford formed Issaries Inc. to publish a new Gloranthan RPG, he didn't have any cash to do it with. So, he asked the fans to join the GTA, the Glorantha Trading Association, at varying levels of contribution starting at a hundred bucks. For that, you get a T-Shirt, access to a few online tidbits, one free book when it's published, and a free drink at any GTA party you can make it to (I've been to four so far at RPG conventions). No way is this monetarily worth it, but without our contributions, the game would never have been published.
In short: I want to see glossy supplements on the shelves of my FLGS. So do the contributors to Paranoia XP. -
Re:Where can I download it then?
When Greg Stafford formed Issaries Inc. to publish a new Gloranthan RPG, he didn't have any cash to do it with. So, he asked the fans to join the GTA, the Glorantha Trading Association, at varying levels of contribution starting at a hundred bucks. For that, you get a T-Shirt, access to a few online tidbits, one free book when it's published, and a free drink at any GTA party you can make it to (I've been to four so far at RPG conventions). No way is this monetarily worth it, but without our contributions, the game would never have been published.
In short: I want to see glossy supplements on the shelves of my FLGS. So do the contributors to Paranoia XP. -
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Salut, Amsterdam Vallon!
Vote for: ceren
Vote for: perdida
Vote for: perdida's sister
Vote for: mercatur
Vote for: taco's wife
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Re:Interesting Train of Thought...
there are already devices that require a breath test to start the car. if you have been convicted of drunk driving, you end up with an ignition interlock restriction on your license.
now some people advocate putting these on all cars, which is dumb. -
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Re:Counting Citations
Does this type of research really tell us anything?
Sort of. What it tells us is how necessary it is for researchers to cite certain papers for the points they're studying to be understood.
What this research obliquely demonstrates is the obliteration phenomenon - that certain works in physics (though we can only speculate which) are so well-known that it's unnecessary to cite them.
Eugene Garfield's paper on the subject, where he coined the term, is available here (because of the nature of the PDF, Google can't OCR it - sorry). -
Re:Gotta be...
Speaking of the aforementioned text speed in Xenogears, there's a GameShark code that fixes this problem.
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Re:It will need good electronic paper
I will buy an ebook when I can read it as comfortably as a normal book. High contrast, high resolution, readable in daylight.
Or at night. In addition, I'd like it to be lightweight, durable enough to stick in a backpack all day long, and be hinged with two screens on the inside so I can read it like it were a regular book.
The universal convenience of the long-established book user interface cannot be underestimated. In some strange, indescribable way, it's more natural for me to read a paper book than it is to read text on a flat screen, clicking a "next" button repeatedly.
Maybe it's just that a book is easier and more comfortable to hold in two hands than my Palm is to hold in one. But my point is: eBook readers aren't going to take off if they're confined to the tablet format. Give me a folding device with screens on both halves so I can hold it in my hand and "flip pages" instead of just scrolling text. Do this, make it cheap enough for consumers, and I'll be one of the first to buy it. -
Re:This is why there need to be reformWhile I may be a CS major, the "vote selling" argument is more real than you think. I'm told that in Italian elections there have been known instances of fraud where people have been coerced or bribed into voting for specific candidates. Admittedly, the actual way in which the fraud worked was to have someone on the inside steal a ballot paper before the election. The cheating party would then fill out the paper, and give it to the person going in to vote, who must then pocket the blank ballot they have been given, and put the pre-completed ballot in the ballot box. That way by bringing out a blank ballot they can prove they must have deposited the other ballot, and the cheater on the outside has another blank ballot to do it all over again.
I'm sure by now you're saying "wait, this has nothing to do with receipts", and you're more or less right, this kind of cheating can be done without receipts, but there are two points which must be made. Firstly, this just goes to show that people DO attempt to cheat at elections, and so that it is a genuine risk which must be averted. Secondly, without a receipt, this kind of cheating is imperfect, for example it seems to me that an individual voter could just say he made a mistake, hand in his ballot (the pre-completed one), and get a new blank, but given an actual receipt, there would be no avoiding this.
I did a bit of checking, and I found my source for this at http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=154354 6&lastnode_id=124, in an everything2 writeup by someone who has actually worked as an italian election official. Apparently now that camera phones are becoming available, they're being used to effectively make "receipts" by photographing ballots. Though again, this kind of cheating would still be vulnerable to just asking for a new ballot, but adding receipts would make it unavoidable. -
Re:sourcesI think one possible way around this is to have an author/owner for each article.
You mean like Everything2?
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Long-acting NarcanI asked my doctor about this, and he said it's basically a long-acting Narcan (naloxone). He doubted it would really be mass-adopted, as it would render morphine and similar drugs worthless. Also, it would have some side effects, such as the person may no longer crave chocolate (it's tied into opiate receptors in the brain) and may no longer experience "runner's high". I doubt it will ever blossom into a big vaccine program.
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Long-acting NarcanI asked my doctor about this, and he said it's basically a long-acting Narcan (naloxone). He doubted it would really be mass-adopted, as it would render morphine and similar drugs worthless. Also, it would have some side effects, such as the person may no longer crave chocolate (it's tied into opiate receptors in the brain) and may no longer experience "runner's high". I doubt it will ever blossom into a big vaccine program.
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Everything2
Everything2 has also been suffering since about 12:30 PDT yesterday. I wonder if this is related or merely coincidence.
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Bobby Fischer on September 11, 2001(from everything2.com )
Within a few hours of the attacks on the United States, chess genius Bobby Fischer called frequent contact Pablo Mercado on Filipino radio to express his thoughts on the tragedy. This is the transcript of the interview:
Mercado: We have on the line one of our friends we used to interview every now and then for the past several years, uh,
I think for the past two years already. We have a chess grandmaster,
the World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. He's on the line right now and
would like to give some thoughts of his own opinion, his global commentary on what happened at the World Trade Center just about a few hours ago, including attack of the White House and I think the Pentagon too, right? In fact, right now, Bobby, good day. It's evening right here.Fischer: Yeah, how are you doing, Pablo? Yes, well, this is all wonderful news. It's time for the fucking US to get their heads kicked in. It's time to finish off the US once and for all.
Mercado: Of course, everybody knows how you... uh... how you...
Fischer: You know, I heard on the BBC a few months ago a very profound, but simple, statement. It really stunned me, I couldn't believe that guy was saying, you know, talking about some of the crimes of the US. You know, of the horrible behavior that the US is committing all over the world, and there the
BBC guy just said it! I couldn't believe my ears! This just shows you
that what goes around comes around, even for the United States. That is what has happened tonight. What goes around comes around, even for the United States.Mercado: Mmm, you are saying you are... you are happy at what happened?
Fischer: Yes, I applaud the act. Look. Nobody gets... the US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. Nobody gave a shit. Now it's coming back to the US. Fuck the US. I wanna see the US wiped out.
Mercado: Heh heh. All right. The US is a superpower, how could...
Fischer: Well, apparently it's not as powerful as everybody thought. They hijacked all these planes, and they had no intelligence on this. This is a major operation, Pablo. Probably hundreds of people were involved in this. How is it possible "the great US" didn't know about it?
Mercado: Yeah, that's what people were asking here in the Philippines. Considering the technology that they have right now, wouldn't they be able to, you know, notice these things...
Fischer: What I am really hoping for now, Pablo... did you ever see that movie Seven Days in May ?
Mercado: Yes, yes.
Fischer: That's a movie about a general who tries to take over the US. Do you remember that? I think it was dark Burt Lancaster; it was based on a book. I saw that years ago. I was rooting for the generals, you know, but in the end the
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Re:Putting Mono, .Net and all that into perspectiv.Net was and imho still is - to a large extent - a joke. What MS did was rename the
You don't know the first thing about it, do you? Go read.
NET langages compile to plaform-independant bytecode. Shure it's ripping off Java, but it shows good taste in plagarism.
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Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation: 10,000 Year Clock and Library"The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to todays 'faster/cheaper' mind set and promote 'slower/better' thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."
Long Now is the brainchild of Stewart Brand.
* The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.
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Re:Makes sense for Japanese parents
In Japan, anime is a children's cartoon genre.
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Probably got sued
They used to require you pass a captcha to get the information about the domain
And then one of the following probably happened: either somebody with less than perfect sight sued NSI under some sort of Americans with Disabilities Act, or Hewlett-Packard "gently reminded" NSI of U.S. Patent 6,195,698. (Read More...)
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E2!
Can you say something bad about Everything2?
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wikipedia + e2
QUESTION: Are there any plans to link wikipedia to everything2? For example, each wikipedia entry could have a link to the corresponding e2 node, and vice versa. This could enhance the usefulness of both, don't you think?
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Re:Of course...
OK, there are a lot of posts here. I will try to relate to many of them.
First of all, anybody who is complaining about ADC/DAC technology must have extremely good equipment in the rest of the audio chain, because these precision instruments are not the major cause of distortion or coloration in reproduction. The largest culprit is at the very end: the speaker. It is quite difficult to make a single driver cover the entire audio range with flat frequency response and equal phase response (equal phase response is necessary to preserve timbre, as it is the relative amplitudes and phases of harmonics which give instruments their timbres). Most speakers sold today have crossover networks to try to bridge the response between multiple drivers, and these crossovers are very difficult to design without distorting the audio.
Now let's assume you have perfect speakers; now you might be able to hear the quantization effects of the DAC, but only if it is low resolution and there is no output filter, and you have ears that can hear up to the sampling frequency of the DAC, which you do not. Your dog might, but I'm not sure. Your ears can't hear far past 20kHz, definitely not past 30kHz. 44.1kHz (CD audio) gives a nyquist limit of 22kHz on reproduced frequencies (nyquist sampling theorem).
Now, with your perfect speakers and your ADC/DAC which are faster and higher resolution than audible, you might place a DSP between the ADC and the DAC. There is one thing DSPs are very good at doing: multiplying and accumulating (a MAC operation). It is trivial to implement a linear time-invariant (LTI) filter on a DSP. This is how you do digital equalization. Many functions you might want to do with audio can be represented as an LTI filter. You will be able to implement all of these on a DSP. It will sound right with your perfect speakers and perfect ADC/DAC.
However, a vaccuum tube can not be modeled as an LTI filter. That's because tubes are not linear (that's the first letter in LTI!). A linear amplifier would not introduce harmonics into a signal which are not there. The reason tube amps sound "warmer" than transistor amps are that they tend to introduce even ordered harmonics. Compare this to transistors, which tend to introduce odd ordered harmonics. Trying to use a DSP to model a non-linear system will be nowhere near as trivial as modeling an LTI. Instead of O(n) MAC operations per sample, where n is the order of the LTI filter, you will have to have O(m^3*n) where m is the order of the polynomial you are using to model the non-linear system, and still it will only be a polynomial model of a non-linear system.
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Re:Er, What about E2?Basically, E2 rewards the individual, and Wikipedia rewards the collective. I think the basic determining factor is which method works best for you. E2 can also be used as a sort of blog which is attractive to people. It includes both history, and the history of the historians.
Wiki tends to produce a more encyclopedia-like database, because there is a single article per page. E2 is a harder read because there are multiple writeups per node. It's also kind of a drag that you can't use images on E2 but I think that it enforces a kind of informational purity. It doesn't make the content any more correct, but if you care about the quality of your writeups, you end up being forced to give complete descriptions. There is no relying on "see picture below". You can draw some ASCII art but it's of only limited use for diagrams. (See for example my writeup on double wishbone suspension.) Actually, I do consider the lack of images to be E2's single greatest failing, because ascii art actually makes the page less readable on small devices and in text browsers.
Regardless, I have chosen E2 because I want my writeups to exist as independent entities. I don't want some choad overwriting my changes, even if they are right and I am wrong. I want them to notify me of my error, and then I want to change it, because I want to learn from it.
Personally I think the solution is to play the two sites off one another. E2 has a lot of great content. Wikipedia has the most immediately useful content. The two go together like peanut butter and strawberry jam.
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Re:Combo Railgun and Dremel
You might be able to utilise eddy-currents.
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Re:Er, What about E2?
